Anybody who knows XP well out there?

[serai]

I've got a question.

When I was using Windows 98, if there was a video or audio clip that I downloaded from the web and wanted to save, I could just go into the Windows section on my C: drive, go to Temporary Internet Files, find the file, copy it and paste it into any file of my choice on my hard drive. But now with XP, I find that isn't the case. I can't find where the computer is caching the temporary files. I tried searching, telling XP to look in hidden folders - nothing. I did find a folder called "Temporary Internet Files" but the damn thing is completely empty!

Does anyone know where those files would be going, or if this is even possible in XP? I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't. Fucking Microsoft never seem to know when to leave anything alone; they've always got to fuck with things that work just fine. *grrr*

Many thanks in advance to anyone who can answer this for me.

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[serai1.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info, but unfortunately that's not the situation here. I tried telling the machine to look for files from today, and nothing. And the video isn't a click-and-download one; it comes up in one of those Apple/Quicktime pages. When I had 98, I could get those from the Temp Files folder, but as I said, I can't find the damn things now.

Thanks for answering, though!

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

IE or firefox? In IE, go to Tools menu, Internet Options, Click on the Settings button for Temporary Internet Files, then click on "View Objects" - it'll open up the folder.

However, places are now doing streaming which deletes the downloaded file as soon as you finish viewing.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I will try this.

*sigh* It used to be easier. Oh well, I better stop bitching before I start sounding like somebody's gramma telling a story about slogging ten miles to school in the snow.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

*cackles agedly*

"When I started, web pages were GREY and you couldn't show a picture!"

Sadly, that's true ;) Been on the web since the get-go. go here to see what it looked like (http://www.dejavu.org/)

Heehee!

[serai1.livejournal.com]

"When I started, web pages were GREY and you couldn't show a picture!"

And we LIKED it!!

Re: Heehee!

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I thought it was the niftiest damned thing since......BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS!

Me and my little 9600 baud modem ;)

Re: Heehee!

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Correction - I think I still had a 1200 baud then?

Re: Heehee!

[jewelsong.livejournal.com]

My brother remembers working in the computer lab in High School, where you hooked the phone up to the "big" computer.

It used a 110 baud modem. You could hear it go click-click-click as it sent the info...

This was in...oh...1975 or so.

Re: Heehee!

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I remember that. I graduated HS in 1980 :)

but I didn't play with *those* computers. They were only for the math geeks. I was a good little Liberal Arts girl, and hopeless at math. And no one would want to be on a computer except for math purposes, right? *grin*

How I ended up doing programming on them by 85 is a mystery ;)

[ex-rogerpit.livejournal.com]

Someone's gramma, eh? I can remember when the Atari 2600 was the highlight of my day. Along with those little Midway personal video games with the really tiny controllers.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Heh. Sonny, I remember playing Advent back in 1975 on a chunky little terminal wired to a Cray, via the phone line, no less. Who cared if you wanted to kill that fucking bird that wouldn't stop singing, or if you went crazy trying to navigate that right-turn-left-turn maze? The computer actually answered you back like you were talking with it! Major revelation, lol!